On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Lorelei Signal https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/09/lorelei.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 brings new color modes and added security capabilities
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate. With this release, we’re shipping over 70 new features and changes to improve the developer experience and deliver new security capabilities for our customers. ⌘ Read more
An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability disclosure process
We put out a call to open source developers and security researchers to talk about the security vulnerability disclosure process. Here’s what we found. ⌘ Read more
re: libertarian seasteading ⌘ Read more
GitHub security update: Vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist
Between July 21, 2021 and August 13, 2021 we received reports through one of our private security bug bounty programs from researchers regarding vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist. ⌘ Read more
Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Labor Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/06/labor.html #programming #project #devjournal
rlogᵛ ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Women Deserve Better Than Roe, Anyway https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/05/roe.html #rant #harm
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2021
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of August 2021.
Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!
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On the blog: Cataclysm — Dark Days Ahead https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/04/cdda.html #freeculture #bookclub
Release Radar · August 2021 Edition
The end of financial year is complete, tax time is over, and everyone is back to shipping awesome projects. During August, our community has been super busy shipping lots of new updates. These new releases ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 08/30 to 09/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/09/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, One of Our Planets Is Missing https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/02/missing.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Introducing the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track
Applications are now open for the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track. Apply by September 13. ⌘ Read more
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In reply to: West Fund, El Paso, TX: contribute to abortion access ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: August 2021
In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services. ⌘ Read more
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline. ⌘ Read more
Introducing GitHub Global Campus
Calling all students! Get the most out of your GitHub Education experience by joining the GitHub student community on our new digital campus. ⌘ Read more
Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals. ⌘ Read more
Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. ⌘ Read more
Top DevOps Interview Questions (2021) - InterviewBit ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Day of the Disappeared https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/30/disappeared.html #programming #project #devjournal
Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
Interesting, I have to check this out ! ⌘ Read more
In reply to: 1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC
A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s. Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/28/typhoon4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 08/23 to 08/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/27/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.
Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Yesteryear https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/26/yesteryear.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: DIY Air Purification Designs ⌘ Read more
2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats. ⌘ Read more
In reply to: Wildermyth tells incredible stories that hit surprisingly hard
These stories mean that playing Wildermyth is not just about doing tactical battles from one end of a scripted narrative to another. It means tracking a small crew of changing people through their careers as adventurers. Sometimes their personali … ⌘ Read more
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful. ⌘ Read more
[~solderpunk] re: been a long time ⌘ Read more
estação atlantina ⌘ Read more
The npm registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Black Ribbon Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/23/bribbon.html #programming #project #devjournal
re: post-capitalism living standards ⌘ Read more
In reply to: GitHub - hoppecl/jamlang0001
A small dynamically typed programming language with first-class comments, where every value is explained by a comment. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/21/typhoon3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 08/16 to 08/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/20/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020)
My old 2017 Huawei MateBook X has been my most reliable laptop and has continued to be my daily-use workstation despite trying half a dozen others (and a desktop or two) in the past four years. Every time I’d try a new laptop, certain components wouldn’t work properly, or the keyboard would feel strange, or the screen would look bad, or the fan or some coil-whine noise would drive me nuts. And every time, I’d return to my MateBook X and everything would just work silently. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Beyond the Farthest Star https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/19/farthest.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Blog, New Registration, New Billing, New App!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: FinTech 2021 State of Play
While things have undoubtedly changed considerably for the financial services industry over the past 18 months, the ascendency of FinTech remains quite unabated, with global fintech investment reaching $98bn. In the UK, FinTech investment hit a new record of £18bn in the first half of 2021, placing it second only to the United States, impressi … ⌘ Read more
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality. ⌘ Read more
august 2020 update ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.33
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33 with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors, 19 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git when 2.31 ⌘ Read more
Securing your GitHub account with two-factor authentication
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Hugo Gernsback’s Birthday https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/16/gernsback.html #programming #project #devjournal
A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7
I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.
Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Age Cohorts, Ruining Things, and Apocalypses https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/15/generations.html #rant #politics
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/14/typhoon2.html Generations in a Nutshell https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/15/generations.html #rant #politics
On the blog: Tweets from 08/09 to 08/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/13/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? July 2021 Recap
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 3 Summary https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/12/season3.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Seamless teaching and learning through GitHub Classroom and Visual Studio Code
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code. ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Permacomputing Update 2021 | viznut ⌘ Read more